Motivational Tennis Quotes - Page 2

• So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

  John Newcombe

  Fire, Negative, Way

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• I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.

  Patrick Rafter

  Tennis, Persons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Careers, Tennis, Given

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• The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.

  Andre Agassi

  Running, Long, Tennis

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• The roughest thing I ever said to an umpire was, 'Are you sure?'

  Rod Laver

  Umpires, Tennis, Said

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• I just try to concentrate on concentrating.

  Martina Navratilova

  Focus, Trying, Concentrating

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• It's like love. When you look too hard, you don't find it. When you let it happen naturally, it comes.

  Marat Safin

  Like Love, Tennis, Looks

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• Tennis has given me soul.

  Martina Navratilova

  Tennis, Soul, Given

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• I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

  Pete Sampras

  Inspirational Sports, Winning, Talking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.

  Jimmy Connors

  Fun, Tennis, Battle

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• You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

  Serena Williams

  Positive, Sports, Believe

  "Serena Williams: How Black Women Can Close the Pay Gap". fortune.com. July 31, 2017.

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• Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

  Russell Lynes

  Men, Addiction, Tennis

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• The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Sports, Business

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• Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.

  Andy Roddick

  Sorry, Player, Tennis

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• I'll let the racket do the talking.

  John McEnroe

  Funny, Sports, Volleyball

  The Times (London), June 26, 1984.

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• To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.

  Sugar Ray Robinson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I'm not afraid of anyone, but sometimes I'm afraid of myself. The mental part is very important.

  Justine Henin

  Sports, Tennis, Champion

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• If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.

  Serena Williams

  Gun, Focus, Tennis

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• I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

  Yannick Noah

  Two, Tennis, Arena

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• What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

  Andre Agassi

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Sports

  Twitter post from Jan 25, 2016

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• Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy.

  Rafael Nadal

  Tennis, Enemy, Losing

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• Both Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King used these phrases ("playing out of one's mind," or "over one's head") to describe their performances while winning tghe finals at Wimbledon in 1975. . . . The player loses himself in the action, continually breaki g the false limits placed on is potential. Awareness becomes acutely heightened, while analysis, anxiety and self-conscious thought are compoletly forgotten. Enjoyment is at a peak - pure and unspoiled.

  Timothy Gallwey

  Kings, Player, Winning

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• I'm not lucky. If I play another player, even if I don't play really good, I think I can win.

  Richard Gasquet

  Winning, Player, Thinking

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• New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

  Jimmy Connors

  Love, Sports, Tennis

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• When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

  Hugo Black

  Funny, Sports, Humor

  Quoted in Think, Feb. 1963

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